I don’t know what their reasoning is, like where are they coming from. Were they just talking about plain water during heavy activity or just walking around in daily pursuits. I’m leaning towards their thinking on just plain non-active things. You need more than just plain water if you’re engaged in heavy sports or such.

Filtering cannot remove all minerals. The only thing that can do that is distillationand you'd need to do complex fractional distillation to remove contaminants that have lower boiling points than water. Reverse-osmosis filtration can remove between 90 and 99 percent of inorganic minerals, which puts it in second place, but the water from that is not harmful.

Besides, the stuff we need comes from our food rather than from water. Inorganic minerals don't do anything for us, and either get eliminated from the body via excretory function or stored in our tissues (which can lead to health problems).

What is our reaction to the outcome? Let us put it this way: We are neither surprised nor delighted.

The European Commission is wrong; it should have authorised the claim. That should be more than clear to anyone who has consumed water in the past, and who has not? We fear there is something wrong in the state of Europe.

Brought to you by the same highly degreed, but obviously not the sharpest knives in the drawer bunch, that decreed man made global warming would end the world any time now ... tap, tap, tap, ...........

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posted on 11/19/2011 6:14:21 PM PST
by RetiredTexasVet
(There's a pill for just about everything ... except stupid!)

One of the commenters to the Telegraph article recommended a scientific test: Take the 21 scientists to the middle of the Sahara Desert and give 10 of them water and the other 11 nothing and leave them there for 30 days. Then checki which group was dehydrated.

Actually if they had no food both groups would be dehydrated.
The ones with no water would die within three days or so. The ones who had water would live longer but without food they also would become dehydrated.

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posted on 11/19/2011 6:47:01 PM PST
by RipSawyer
(This does not end well!)

“Actually if they had no food both groups would be dehydrated.
The ones with no water would die within three days or so. The ones who had water would live longer but without food they also would become dehydrated.”

True,,,but the “scientists” are claiming that drinking water is completely unnecessary. All the animals going to the watering hole over the millions of years for a drink,,,totally unnecessary. Nature has it all wrong.

Mkmensinger?
Have you ever seen a European drink a glass of water?
Wine, that’s what they drink, isn’t it? Never water?
On no account will they ever drink water, and not without good reason.

Water, that’s what I’m getting at, water. Mkmensinger, water is the source of all life. Seven-tenths of this earth’s surface is water. Why, do you realize that seventy percent of you is water?
And as human beings, you and I need fresh, pure water to replenish our precious bodily fluids.

Are you beginning to understand?
Mkmensinger. Mkmensinger, have you never wondered why I drink only distilled toilet water, or pondwater, and only pure-grain alcohol?
Have you ever heard of a thing called fluoridation. Fluoridation of water?
Well, do you know what it is?
Hand me that 30 cal, will you?

They have wasted vast sums of money and time to determine that water does NOT help prevent ‘dehydration’ in the human body???

They appear to base their nonsense on an incoherent case that

(1) a medical condition of ‘dehydration’ may have causes other than relative intake of H2O,

(2) drinking bottled water is not UNIQUELY beneficial compared to other possible sources of H2O.

However,neither (1) nor (2) in any way undermines the simple claim that regular intake of THIS type of bottled water can prevent dehyrdation.

Sure, there can be other causes of dehydration than a below average water intake, and sure, there can be other ways to obtain H2O (including drinking water form a tap or stream, or getting H2O in other beverages etc.), but that in no way logically undermines the claim in dispute.

One could drink only tea or coffee, soda pop, etc. in sufficient quantities and never suffer dehydration (though caffeine is a diuretic and affects how much liquid one would need to consume). The fact that one does not uniquely NEED to drink bottled water (duh) in no way implies that the proposed label claim is false.

“One could drink only tea or coffee, soda pop, etc. in sufficient quantities and never suffer dehydration”

Disagree. A few months ago I drank nothing but coffee. No tap water, no bottled water, no soda pop, no juices,,,just coffee. I began to get irregular heartbeats every day,,,all day. My doc said I was severely dehydrated and that was what was causing the skips. She told me to drink plain old water. Did as she said and, lo and behold, no more skips.

“I think the UN should spend 10 years and $50 Million to study this as well.”

You cheapskate! This is going to take several billion dollars of “investment” in further studies. Maybe even a couple of trillion! Let’s demand that owebama gets right on this! For the teachers and the children! And the cops and firefighters!

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